Is the H silent in habanero?

For example, the word habanero is pronounced [aβaˈneɾo] (with an n) in Spanish. English speakers may instead pronounce it /ˌhɑːbəˈnjɛroʊ/, as if it were spelled ⟨habañero⟩; the phenomenon also occurs with empanada, which may be pronounced as if spelled ⟨empañada⟩.

Why do some English words sound French?

The reason for this is over 10,000 English words come from French. Many others come from Latin, the language from which French originated. This means that a significant number of English words have either exact French counterparts or very similar equivalents in French. That’s something to celebrate!

Do cities have different names in different languages?

As the other answers point out, it’s very common for city names to be pronounced and/or spelled differently in different languages.

Why is lingerie pronounced lingerie?

That is to say, English adopts spoken words, not written ones: it exists as a spoken tongue before it exists as a written script. Lingerie (literally, laundry stuff) is pronounced as you say in French, and hence transported to English with the same pronunciation.

Why do different countries have different names?

Nations often have a different relationship with their neighbours as others have. That’s why they call them differently. Farther countries are called with a name inherited form other languages but they are modified suitable for the new language. Some names have been translated.

How did people come up with their names?

In other cases, people from one place went to another, didn’t speak the local language, and came up with a name for it in their own language instead and if that language was an ancestor of ours, or that people was a predecessor of ours, their choice of name got passed down to us. For example, take China.

What are some languages that sound similar to ‘Mama’?

Mama. Mamay. Maa. Sound similar? That was mother in different languages — specifically in French, Spanish, Italian, Welsh, Navajo, Arabic, Swahili, Korean, Telugu, Mandarin, Quechua and Hindi, in that order. What do all these languages have in common?

How did the French get their name from the Germans?

And Deutsci is the way they called themselves -and kept doing so until today. But it gets better: some Germans also gave their name… to the French. Another German tribe, the Franks, emigrated West and occupied today’s France, called Neustria and Austrasia in Charlemagne’s time. Franks evolved into French.